Was Multitasking worth the loading screens?
Back when The Sims 4 came out, one of the Guru’s gave us some insight as to why they can’t have more than one lot active in The Sims 4, with one of the reasons being Multitasking. According to t...
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"rune1973;c-16474437" wrote:
with multitasking do you mean like controlling 2 family's at one time or when you arnt controlling 1 it looks after itself and you can see another member of one of you other family's walking by your house in the streat.
Neither.
Multitasking is when someone is doing two actions at the same time (ie eating and talking to a friend or playing the computer and drinking coffee etc.) It's a term frequently used out of games irl and doesn't correlate specifically to the game. Like swimming, Sims can swim in game but swimming it's self isn't specific to the game.
A sim taking care of itself when not being played is autonomy.
You can't control two families at the same time but alternating between different families is often called rotational play.
Sims walking down the street are just random NPCS the game picked at that moment to fill the world.
